U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas acknowledges the crowd after receiving her gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 2, 2012, in London.

A photographic look at Douglas’s gravity-defying and history-making performance at the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games. She’s the first African-American all-around Olympic champion and the first U.S. gymnast to win both that title and the team gold in the same Games.